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AN IMPORTANT FIRST FOR SIBERIAN CRANES
by Claire Mirande, International Crane Foundation Exciting news from International Crane Foundation Research Associate, Dr. Nyamba Batbayar – our Mongolian colleagues successfully captured and banded the first Critically Endangered Siberian Crane in Mongolia! Scientists have surprisingly little information about where sub-adult or non-breeding Siberian Cranes summer. In order to take the most effective action to protect […]
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Capacity-building workshop for East Asia and Southeast Asia on achieving Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 and 12
by EAAFP Secretariat Spike Millington, Chief Executive of the East Asian–Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) gave a presentation on the conservation of migratory waterbirds and their habitats in the Flyway at the Capacity-building workshop for East Asia and Southeast Asia on achieving Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 and 12 held in Yanji, Jilin Province, China 15-18 September 2015. EAAFP brings together […]
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EAAFP Secretariat supports HSF Korea in developing materials for Rason International Trade Exhibition in DPRK
by EAAFP Secretariat The EAAFP Secretariat supported Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea (HSF Korea) in developing CEPA materials for the poster session at the Rason International Trade Exhibition (RITE) in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), as reported in the article from HSF Korea below. The DPRK has many important habitats for migratory waterbirds such as […]
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Maintaining habitat for birds in Bako Buntal Bay [EAAF112], Malaysia
Read in Bahasa Malaysia Translated by Rosa Risdiana, EAAFP intern The situation of Buntal village in Bako Buntal Bay is different from other estuaries in eastern Malaysia. Hundreds of waterbirds visit this village, feeding on the lakes and breeding on the shore. The abundance of birds makes the village unique, and it attracts many tourists. The estuary […]
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Foster care rare birds return home to breed
Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) News Spoonievision – first footage and behind-the-scenes interviews Rare Spoon-billed Sandpipers that were fostered by conservationists have returned home to breed in numbers for the first time. Five birds that were taken into captivity as eggs a year ago, and raised by WWT’s expert bird keepers till they fledged, have […]
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Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force: News Bulletin No.14, August 2015
The 14th Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force (SBS TF) News Bulletin is downloadable here. The contents are as below. To read previous news bulletins and find out more about Spoon-billed Sandpiper, please visit our SBS TF page. Foreword from the Editor Guest Editorial by Spike Millington Boat Race for Conservation – Sonadia, Bangladesh Once was a BirdHunter Myanmar […]
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Global trends show seabird populations dropped 70 per cent since 1950s
– Comment from Dr. Judit Szabo, EAAFP Science Officer – For only about one in five species of seabirds do we have reliable information of what’s going on. For these monitored species, total numbers have declined by nearly 70% in the last 60 years. The largest declines were observed in families with wide-ranging pelagic (open-sea) […]
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Spoon-billed Sandpiper news brief Summer 2015
Christoph Zöckler, EAAFP Spoon-billed Sandpiper (SBS) Task Force Coordinator In the spring ‘SBS in China’ and British birdwatchers under the lead of Jing Li and Guy Anderson (RSPB) were surveying the Rudong and Dongtai coast in China for homeward migrating Spoon-billed Sandpiper. The team surveying between 3 and 12 May found a minimum of 62 […]
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Spike’s Interview with Arctic breeding shorebirds expert Pavel Tomkovich
by Spike Millington Chief Executive of the EAAFP Secretariat Pavel Tomkovich is one of the most experienced and respected scientists working on Arctic breeding birds, particularly shorebirds. In July 2015, I had the opportunity to accompany Pavel to a couple of field sites near Meinapilgino, just south of the Arctic circle in Chukotka, Russia. In […]
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Seabirds and fishing gear – a conundrum
By Marguerite Tarzia, BirdLife International Every day across the world, fishermen and women are out at sea, along coasts or far offshore in search of a good fish catch. Seabirds are irresistibly drawn to their boats, the bait, and the promise of a tasty and easily caught meal. But getting too close to fishing gear is […]
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